On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 Samiya Illias <samiyaill...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is the 'belief in an afterlife' natural? Perhaps it's something hard wired > within, such that even atheists hope to live forever! >
Well sure, a desire not to die must be hard wired in, every one of your ancestors had such a desire, individuals who didn't have it didn't pass any of their genes into the next generation. Homo naledi , the human ancestor recently found in South Africa with a brain only slightly larger than that of a chimpanzee, seems to have gone to considerable trouble to bury it's dead in deep dangerous caves, and that certainly sounds like they had some sort of belief in life after death. But of course having a belief, even being absolutely positively 100% certain about that belief, is not the same as being correct. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
